Luke 12:28-47

²⁸So if God so clothes the grass that today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into an oven, how much more you, O little-faiths!

²⁹Do not concentrate on what you may eat or what you may drink; do not be anxious.

³⁰All these things really occupy the nations of the world, and your Father knows that you need them.

³¹Rather, concentrate on the Kingdom of God, and all these things will be provided for you.

³²“Do not fear, little flock, because it pleased the Father to give you the Kingdom.

³³Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make for yourselves ‘purses’ that will not wear out, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where a thief cannot approach, nor a moth destroy.

³⁴Because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

³⁵“Let your waists be belted and your lamps burning,

³⁶and you yourselves like men waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.

³⁷Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find watching when he comes. Assuredly I say to you that he will gird himself and have them recline, and will come and serve them.

³⁸And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those slaves.

³⁹But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not allowed his house to be broken into.

⁴⁰Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

⁴¹Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, are you directing this parable to us, or to everyone?”

⁴²So the Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and prudent steward whom his master will place over his household to give them the food allowance at the right time?

⁴³Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

⁴⁴I tell you truly that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

⁴⁵But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master won't come for a while,’ and should begin to hit the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

⁴⁶the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷“That servant who knew his master's will, but neither got ready nor did according to that will, will be beaten with many blows.